She tried to kill him. Twice. The first time was at the school dance when he took over Alaric's body and she had to give it her all just for him to believe she was dead and then she tried again during the sacrifice Same difference, right?
Klaus hated getting outsmarted he always had to get even he couldn't be bested, especially not by a bunch of children who are beneath him.
He found himself thinking about her at odd moments, it was more so curiosity. How she could bring him to his knees whenever she pleased. He smirked to himself She will die he thought to himself. Klaus couldn't let her live not after she almost killed him he would not allow it he's killed for less, but he doesn't want to end her just yet he wants her to fear him to be paranoid at every turn she takes until he inevitably ends her life. It's what she deserves.
-month after sun and moon sacrifice
when he left the scene of a soon-to-be murder leaving Stefan to do the dirty work. The minute the night air hits his face a moment before the screams begin he thinks of her again. In the morning after a full moon, when he is lying naked – arms spread in the dawn light – he thinks of her, and how she tried to stop the sacrifice. When one of his witches is too weak to finalize the transformation – he thinks of Bonnie Bennett and the power of a hundred witches lying dormant in her teenage palms.
He admires her, the power she wields he's come to realize. He's never seen anything like it since his mother and Ayana and it's why he hasn't made it his mission to end her, he convinced hisself it was so she could live in paranoia and fear until he sees fit 1000 years and he knows the best torturing tactics are always the mental ones.
He needs her That must be it he needs her and her power to accomplish his goals, to be his weapon against his enemies and her relationship with the doppelganger and with the Salvatore brothers is just icing on the cake.
She's wasted on them, he repeats in his mind. She wastes her life as if she were a normal teenager when she was so much more, she was an instrument in his plan.
When he first saw her through Alaric's eyes, as she threw Damon across the room he was intrigued. When she seemed so determined to kill him in the school, knowing that it would have killed her to do so he was curious how far she'd go. She had made an impression on him even before she was standing over his body her magic paralyzing him in a frenzy of nature as she tried to finish him. Because she was powerful. Because she dared to stand against him and survive.
This will be my revenge he thought with a devious smile thinking to hisself he'd decided to pursue this strange fascination and somehow lure her into his fold. She needed to be punished for trying to kill him. She was a constant possible threat – a weapon – that needed to be taken out of the game or turned to his side either or, he will have his revenge on Bonnie Bennett. No one could try to kill him and survive! And everyone who had a role to play in that sloppy, sloppy sacrifice should be punished. Just like Elijah was. Just like Elena was. Just like Stefan was.
It was a weakness, a small voice in the back of his head toyed with him. The fact that shes still breathing without consequences is an insult to him she tried to kill him and he decided to finally do something about it.
KBKBKBKBKB*
He deserves it, Bonnie thought, burning another small memento from one of her moments with Klaus. She had been slowly burning to pieces the clothing she wore on the night of the sacrifice – the night she lost The night she'd seen real evil.
Shes been angry ever since that night she felt like a failure she failed protecting her grams she failed at protecting her friends. She. She never seems to get anything in her life right She felt Angry tears started to stream down here round face, She had been saying the same spell with such fierce determination that even she was surprised.
She was sending it to him in the smoke: sending him the pain, the anger, the frustration and the sorrow that he left in his wake. She wanted him to feel everything she felt that night every last twinge of anguish.
Yes, she wanted Klaus thinking of her: she wanted to protect her friends the only family she has left she is the last Bennett witch, the keeper of the power of a hundred witches.
Because then he would try to kill her, she thought with a wicked smirk. And she would be ready.
And she wouldn't quit until he was dead.